Comments on: Lightning Strike!

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:58:58 +0000

At my mom’s house in Vermont, where I grew up, we have lightening rods — that get struck at least once a summer, if not more. Far better them than the house or the old maples in the yard, but still scary — I remember getting stuck in the barn as a teenager and my crazy thoroughbred sticking his head out the window just as a bolt went down the lightening rod by his stall. Yikes! (he was a southerner by breed and had no sense if much beauty). If this happens often, get lightening rods. . . if not, just unplug your phone lines and make sure all your electric is grounded.

By: Carroll

Carroll — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:44:05 +0000

Yikes! We live on top of a hill, and the few electrical storms we get in Nor.Ca. have been my personal paranoia ever since we moved here. The closest hit was to a pine tree just ten feet off the deck in front of the kitchen window out of which I was looking at the time. My son, looking out an even closer window in the other room, and I, and the dog all levitated simultaneously to a quivering whimpering huddle in the door between the two rooms. After it passed, we found evidence of exploded pine bark and cone fragments hundreds of feet away on the other side of the house. Fingers crossed that your lovely home, and ours remain unscathed in the future, and thanks to your other commenter for the excellent suggestion about unplugging things!

By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:40:04 +0000

You bring back memories… a few years ago my computer got zapped by lightening twice in one summer, and both times we heard that buzzing/humming sound first. Very freaky. The first time I thought it was a fluke. The second time, it finally sunk in that I should probably be unplugging things when the thunderclouds roll in. (By the way, both times the lightening came through the phone line to the modem instead of through the electrical line.)